Worst Evil schemes ever

I am trying to think up the worst—as in stupid— evil schemes ever. Name one and describe why it is so stupid.

Dont include things like invader zim, because those schemes were intended to be stupid.

edited 3rd Nov '10 10:35:53 PM by Talann_Zar

Plan 9 from Outer Space?

{Irrelevant, unhelpful crack about Google}

Can it involve aliens? If so, I can help.

Aizen's plot, of course.

Uchiha Sasuke bested him.

Any plot by any Disney villain ever, except for Xanatos.

Gendou Ikari... did he have a plan at all?

Any plan by Lex Luthor. While those are good for remaining a Recurring Villain, they kinda suck as far as "what to do after I kill Superman" is concerned.

The plot behind The Zero Game isn't that bad in the scope of things, but it is a giant wallbanger considering the genre.

Would you guess that the "shocking conspiracy" behind a political thriller is alchemy?

That one episode from (the 1930s?) Superman where he went against a Mad Scientist armed with a mountaintop lair equipped with a Death Ray raining destruction For the Lulz and For the Evulz. Seriously, that episode exists and it has neither motivation nor reason why it happens beyond "Superman has to save the day". (The episode is rumored to have been a subtle Take That! to Nikola Tesla and his designs from his later life)

Then from the same show and same era, there was another mountaintop lair that used a giant magnet to pull meteors from the sky that bounced when they hit the ground like they were giant baseballs. (I know I know, Science Marches On and Technology Marches On)

edited 4th Nov '10 7:36:11 AM by MajorTom

The pre-WWII German Industrialists who backed Hitler and the Nazi party.

For the benefit of those lucky people who haven't read The Zero Game, here's the villians' plan in more detail.

• Step 1: Skim Wikipedia a bit and draw all the wrong conclusions
• Step 2: Decide to attempt to transmute neptunium into plutonium by exposing it to neutrinos. You know, those neutrinos that constantly whiz through the earth all the time without affecting anything.
• Step 3: Buy an abandoned gold mine and spend billions of dollars building a neutrino observatory. Presumably, the villians gave up at this point and wanted to just do science, since it's not clear how the observatory is supposed to relate to transmutation. Since every neutrino that hits the (very expensive) detectors is not hitting neptunium.
• Step 4: Set up an underground betting ring on meaningless provisions in senate bills.
• Step 5: Use said betting ring to get an appropriation passed which lets them buy the mine. Maybe normal lobbyists were too expensive for them or something. Heck, they could have got it passed just by asking nicely since noone cared about it. Also, remember this is the same mine that they already bought and already built all their stuff in.
• Step 6: Kill off everyone involved in the betting ring to get the attention of an intrepid protagonist.
• Step 7: ???
• Step 8: Epic Fail

It's actually kind of sad, since the author clearly did research. He manages to describe a neutrino observatory pretty accurately. He just didn't think through the plot very well.

edited 4th Nov '10 9:21:06 PM by storyyeller

I'm still confused by Luthor's plan from Superman Returns. Apparently he'd destroy most of the world's land, and then make everyone buy land on his kryptonite island? What?

I recall a certain villain from Antihero For Hire had a plan which involved drugging (or perhaps using some other method, I don't recall) the populace to make them more susceptible to mind control, and then broadcasting messages to control them.

It failed because, as the main character pointed out, most people aren't equipped to receive radio transmissions directly to their brains.

This is why I started the Just Bugs Me page for The Usual Suspects.

Keyser Soze's goal is to make himself completely unfindable. He's already 99.99% there, since he has the resources to "completely disappear" and only one other person knows what he looks like. How does he take care of this one loose end? By killing the guy in person, thus risking more witnesses, being captured, being killed, etc. It gets dumber than that, but no real need for spoilers.